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Turfling
Australasia
Tuesday 15 September 2026
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The lead
Amphitrite’s unbeaten daughter Monroe Walk takes the Rose Stakes
Monroe Walk won the Group 2 Rose Stakes over 1800 metres at Hanshin on Sunday, the Kizuna filly beating Enne by three lengths with Exceed a length and a half away third. She ran 1:44.5 and closed her final 600 metres in 34.1 for Hiroyuki Uemura and Keita Tosaki. She is now four from four, and the first filly in 24 years to win the Shuka Sho trial unbeaten, after Fine Motion in 2002 (Idol Horse).
Her dam Amphitrite won the 2018 Group 1 Thousand Guineas at Caulfield and was third in the Australian Guineas, a $50,000 Magic Millions Adelaide buy who earned more than $750,000 before being sold privately to stud in Japan. Monroe Walk cost 68.2 million yen as a foal at the 2023 Northern Farm Mixed Sale. “As soon as I asked her to go, she responded immediately,” Tosaki said. She holds a berth in the Shuka Sho (Breednet, Idol Horse).
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Things to know today
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Pondalowie won the Group 2 Let’s Elope Stakes over 1400 metres at Flemington on Saturday, the Deep Field mare beating Too Darn Discreet by a short half head with On Display another half head away third. It was a first stakes win for Emma-Lee and David Browne, with Lachlan Neindorf riding, and takes her to four wins from 22 starts and A$394,275. She cost $150,000 from the Prima Park draft at Karaka Book 1. “I wasn’t expecting her to do that. She has promised it for a long time, but I can’t believe she’s delivered,” David Browne said (LOVERACING.NZ) |
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Zac Purton rode a double at Sha Tin on Sunday, his third from the first three meetings of the 2026/27 season, taking the Class 4 Hing Wah Handicap over 1000 metres on the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run graduate Ruby Thrive for Manfred Man and closing the card on Danny Shum’s Nyx Gluck in the Class 3 Yiu Tung Handicap over 1400 metres. He leads the standings on six wins from Vincent Ho on four and Derek Leung on three. Rattan Galaxy set a 1400 metre class record of 1:21.26 for Man and Luke Ferraris, and Draco lowered it to 1:21.01 an hour later (LOVERACING.NZ) |
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Comanche Brave made it back to back Group 1 wins in the Flying Five over five furlongs at the Curragh on Sunday, the four year old Wootton Bassett horse winning by a length and a quarter for Donnacha O’Brien and Billy Loughnane after the July Cup at Newmarket. Bred by the O’Brien family’s Whisperview Trading and raced by Muhaideb Almuhaideb, he is out of the Group 3 winning Holy Roman Emperor mare Ishvana and has five wins and six placings from 16 starts. Wootton Bassett died in Australia last September and his final crop of foals is due here this spring. Two of his sons stand in Australia, Wodeton at Newgate Farm and Royal Patronage at Darling View Thoroughbreds (Breednet) |
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Fast Network will not run in the Group 1 Sprinters Stakes at Nakayama on 27 September and is due back in Hong Kong on 25 September, his trainer Dennis Yip has said. The six year old finished 15th in the Group 2 Centaur Stakes at Hanshin, after which Yip reported a recurrence of the throat problem for which the horse had surgery in May 2025, the release of an epiglottic entrapment. He would have been bidding to become the third Hong Kong trained winner of the race after Silent Witness in 2005 and Ultra Fantasy in 2010 (Idol Horse) |
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The catalogue for the 2026 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale is online, with 12 entries by Sword of State and 15 by Hello Youmzain among them. Graduates of the sale include Golden Sixty, Mr Brightside, Lucky Sweynesse, Ceolwulf, Antino, Feroce and the Hong Kong Derby winner Invincible Ibis (Breednet) |
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Racing in Australia on Monday was at Hamilton, Tamworth and Corowa, where Puissance de Lune had a double with the mare Cute Girl and the three year old gelding High Falls. The second season sires Pinatubo and Tiger Of Malay each had a winner, Extreme Turbo at Hamilton and Tigrios at Tamworth, the latter a $24,000 buy from the Bowness Stud draft at the Inglis HTBA Yearling Sale (Breednet) |
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International
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America
A half-brother to Shinzo brings US$1.1 million at Keeneland
A Justify half-brother to the Golden Slipper winner Shinzo became the first seven figure lot of this year’s Keeneland September Yearling Sale, bought in Monday’s opening session by the Japanese trainer Haruki Sugiyama for US$1.1 million. Offered by Four Star Sales as agent, he is the fourth living foal of Samaready, who won the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes and the Group 1 Moir Stakes and was bought by Tom Magnier for $1.8 million at the 2018 Inglis Chairman’s Sale in foal to Snitzel. That covering produced Shinzo, who stands at Coolmore and has his first yearlings in 2027. Samaready was sent to Kentucky in 2022 and has an unraced two year old colt by Justify (Breednet).
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Europe
Sun Goddess takes the Moyglare by six and a half lengths
Sun Goddess won the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes over seven furlongs at the Curragh on Sunday by six and a half lengths under Ryan Moore, a fourth elite win in a row for the Sioux Nation filly, who has five wins and two seconds from seven starts. “She looks a freak,” Aidan O’Brien said. She was bought for £120,000 at the Goffs Premier UK Yearling Sale by Avenue Bloodstock for MV Magnier and races for the Coolmore partners. There is an Australian offshoot: Iiex Excelsa, a Group 3 placed half-sister to Sun Goddess’s dam, sold through Inglis Digital in June for $13,000 in foal to Storm Boy and has since foaled a filly by him (Breednet).
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The week ahead
| 10 October |
The Group 3 Gloaming Stakes at Rosehill |
| 12 October |
NZB Ready to Run breeze ups begin at Te Rapa |
| 18 October |
The Group 1 Shuka Sho at Kyoto |
| 18 November |
The NZB Ready to Run Sale opens at Karaka |
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